A cannibal who satisfied the sexual desires he had suppressed before his suicide.
A truly shocking incident occurred in Japan where a male customer consumed parts of a sex worker’s body. After strangling the sex worker (in her 20s) to death at a hotel, the man ate her nipples and areolae, tongue, and “white flesh” (likely fat) before committing suicide by hanging himself from the doorknob.
The body parts found in the man’s stomach had been consumed raw—without any cooking—and a suicide note discovered in the room’s trash can stated, “The woman was not at fault; the cause lay in her line of work. My motive was not hatred.” Additional details indicate the woman was 149 cm tall and weighed 40.2 kg.
01 / Deceased woman: “a = tip of tongue, b = lower abdomen”
02 / Deceased woman: “c = right breast, d = vaginal scar”
03 / Contents of the deceased man’s stomach: “a = tissue from near the nipple and areola, b = unidentified soft white tissue, c = part of the tongue”
The 1981 Paris Cannibal Case and Issei Sagawa
Whenever gruesome incidents involving self-harm are reported in Japan, the 1981 “Paris cannibal case” is frequently cited. That incident, in which Issei Sagawa—a Japanese man studying in Paris—killed a Dutch female student and allegedly consumed her flesh, garnered significant international media attention. A psychiatric evaluation in France deemed him to be in a state of mental incapacity, resulting in no prosecution; after being repatriated to Japan, Sagawa continued to work as a writer until his death from pneumonia in November 2022 at the age of 73.
The fact that the perpetrator faced no criminal charges and instead continued to share content based on the incident sparked controversy at the time, and the case has since been invoked for comparison whenever heinous crimes occur, whether in Japan or abroad. The tendency for incidents like the recent one to rapidly become hot topics online—and to be discussed in connection with past events—is rooted in the existence of such precedents.
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